Scars — Ongoing Series (2021–)

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Scars is an ongoing series of works on canvas and paper, made from layered cardboard, pigment, and acrylic. Conceived as a counterpart to Crashes, this body of work reflects on the surface of things — on what remains visible after rupture, and how the wound transforms once it has begun to heal.

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If Crashes captures the instant of impact, Scars inhabits its aftermath: the slow sedimentation of memory and material into new forms of stillness. The series moves from the external to the internal, tracing not the moment of fracture but the quiet persistence that follows — the thin, luminous line where pain turns into matter and matter into testimony.

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The works are minimal yet charged, hovering between gesture and silence. The cardboard — pressed, torn, and embedded into the pictorial surface — retains the memory of its previous function: a material of transport and containment. In Scars, it becomes both skin and trace, embodying the paradox of fragility and resilience.

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As in Crashes, Rizzetto uses packaging materials as a language of the present, questioning the infrastructures of logistics, acceleration, and disposability that define contemporary life. But here, the focus shifts from the movement of goods to the stillness of recovery.
The scar, unlike the crash, no longer speaks of the event but of its duration — the patient work of time that restores continuity without erasing damage.

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Gold and pigment appear at the margins of the wounds, not to conceal but to consecrate them — quiet acts of reverence for the persistence of form.
In their restraint, the compositions evoke a sense of suspended clarity — a visual counterpart to Michel Houellebecq’s line: “Today that everything appears, in the clarity of the void, I have the freedom to look at the snow.”

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Scars is a meditation on intervals — between violence and repair, between presence and absence. It is the echo of Crashes, its reflective inversion: where rupture finds rest, and fragility reveals its quiet strength.

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Paintings and works on paper - Cardboard, acrylic, gold leaf - Various Dimensions